The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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